Catherine Teatum and Rob Jones are instantly likeable. Talking through their collections, the excitement and pride in their voices is undoubtable. Picked as one of 10 finalists at Fashion Fringe in 2009, Teatum Jones is one of the competition's success stories.

After just four short years, the London-based label is now a mainstay on the closing day of the London Fashion Week schedule and as if to cement its success, the eponymous label was picked up by Liberty after just two seasons.

Rob and Catherine talked to
The Telegaph
about their ever-growing brand.

What sort of woman are your pieces aimed at?Catherine
Women that love contemporary elegance, are effortlessly chic and have a desire to invest in quality craftsmanship that plays with the balance between masculine and feminine.

How would you sum up your general aesthetic?Catherine
Our signature is an evolving dialogue between masculine and feminine treated with a profound love of narrative. This manifests itself in exclusive cryptic prints, luxury bespoke textiles and a continual exploration in cutting balance between structure and fluidity. We are conceptual in our approach to design whilst remaining loyal to an ethos of authenticity, desirability and quality British craftsmanship.

Which celebrities would you like to dress?Rob
Tilda Swinton and Carey Mulligan would be top of the list.

Where would you like to see the brand in five years time?Rob
Better, faster, stronger.

Which women's style do you admire?Rob
The women around that have supported Teatum Jones from very early on. A mix of editors, stylists and industry friends who are always popping to the studio to see what we are working on. Every time we see them, despite their hectic schedules, they always manage to look effortlessly chic.

What was the inspiration for the AW13 collection?Catherine
The AW13 collection dissects the myriad nature of Vladimir Nabokov and examines the parallels between his role as a husband, a scholar, a choreographer of words and an unassuming lepidopterist. The expedition drew us into the obsession with the transience of youth, its buoyancy, innocence, fragility and ultimate passing. Our studies encouraged us to question why we have an insatiable need to recapture beauty and resuscitate nostalgic moments to decorate a present day reality.
Rob
His role as lepidopterist led us to find his actual butterfly specimens at the Natural History Museum where we got to spend days examining there detailed beauty.

What are your favourite pieces from the collection?
The Printed Wellesley Shirt Dress, it's the perfect balance between masculine and feminine. It also shows how we love to be fearless with colour.

What will we never see in a Teatum Jones collection?Catherine
We once said we would never use black because our aesthetic is so much about colour and texture. However, the AW13 collection has the most phenomenal alpaca wool laminated in a black glossy coating, so now, we never say never!

Which designers are you influenced by?Rob
The way that we design and become inspired stems from a very filmic approach. We're heavily influenced by the mood of a film, the emotion in a piece of film score music or the architecture and cinematography built into a set. So I would say that directors such as Sophia Coppola and Andrei Tarkovsky really inspire us. Architecture such as the Bauhaus movement and Frank Gehry and composers such as Phillip Glass and Rachel Portman really stir up our creative emotions.

If you weren't in fashion, what job would you be doing?Rob
Composing score music for films. I love the emotion that film scores can create and it's why we create our own scores for each of our presentations. Music is so important to Teatum Jones and I think I would work with it in some way what ever I did.
Catherine
Similarly to Rob it would be in music. I always wanted to be a country and western singer growing up listening to my mother's vinyl's of Patsy Cline but fashion tipped over the balance of excitement when I grew old enough to start making my own clothes. Adding to the country and western career I would be living in the West of Ireland with a recording studio and a farm with at least ten horses!